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Bolerium Books2141 Mission Street #300 San Francisco, CA 94110Hours:We're here, but practicing social distancing.... Bolerium will be closed to walk-in traffic while the COVID-19 issues resolve. . Be sure to visit us on-line and on Facebook.Phone:(800) 326-6353 (415) 863-6353Email: info@bolerium.com

Tyler TX: the railroad, 1957. Pamphlet. 98p., coated alkaline paperstock throughout, plentifully illustrated with b&w period photos, facsimiles and line maps, softbound, a pamphlet in 7.5x5.5 inch stapled color wraps. A very presentable booklet, the one flaw we see is a faint ripple to first third of textblock (no staining..... More

Oakland: Oakland Unified School District, Development & Services -- Office of Community Relations, 1973? Unpaginated preliminaries, 98p., several illustrations including two maps, mimeo'd from typescript; side-stapled standard leaves under printed decorated cover leaf, wraps are dust- and handling-soiled and textblock is mildly edgeworn, but good copy. A sidelight on Oakland..... More

Baum, Dwight James, with a foreword by Harvey Wiley Corbett and an introduction and commentary text by Matlack Price

New York: William Helburn, Inc., 1927. Hardcover. unpaginated, illustrated with 191 b&w plates, including plans, 12.75x16.25 inches, rubricated title page, first edition, mild rippling to top of the first few pages otherwise very good in blue cloth and gilt. New York architect and distant relation of the Wizard of Oz..... More

Oakland: West Coast Furniture Co., 1981. Calendar. 28p., 7.5x9 inches, calendar in stapled pictorial wraps, each month illustrated with 8-10 panels depicting the life of a prominent black American, some notes in pencil by previous owners, wraps have suffered a quarter-inch tear midway of the spine affecting all leaves, one..... More

N. pl. Shaw-Burton, 1980. Calendar. 28p., 7.5x9 inches, calendar in stapled pictorial wraps, each month illustrated with 8-10 panels depicting the life of a prominent black American, wraps stained with small splashes and small tear at base of last few months. More

Hong Kong: An Odyssey Book / the Guidebook Company Ltd, 1997. 240p., profuse captioned photos and period images throughout the text, high-density coated paper in trade-size glossy frenchfold wraps, a very good copy. An engaging commercial production. More

Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1972. viii+100p., poetry and illustrations, very good first edition, signed by the poet and the artist, gift inscription and signatures of a class on last free endpaper, in dj. More

Los Angeles: University of California, 1984. 15p. + 22p. appendixes, 8.5x11 inches, preface, appendixes, very good in stapled, brown decorative wraps, letter to Antonio Rios-Bustamante from editor Permaul signed by her laid-in. More

2141 Mission Street #300 San Francisco, CA 94110Hours:We're here, but practicing social distancing.... Bolerium will be closed to walk-in traffic while the COVID-19 issues resolve. . Be sure to visit us on-line and on Facebook.